Woman of the day

The names Watson and Crick are well known for their work on DNA, but who knew that their work was based, without her knowledge, on that of Rosalind Franklin?

Woman of the Day chemist and X-Ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin of London, the Dark Lady of DNA, died OTD 1958 aged just 37. She worked out that the structure of DNA had two chains and took Photo 51, the first known X-ray image of the double helix. Two weeks later, having… pic.twitter.com/Stc9mTcA5D

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